x11-wm/dwm 6.5 DragonFly

Dynamic, small, fast and simple window manager

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: MIT
Categories: x11-wm
Package size: 22.6 KiB, 49.0 KiB installed

Description

dwm is a minimalistic window manager. It manages windows in tiling and floating modes, much like ion, larswm and wmii. dwm however is much smaller, faster and simpler.

It consists of a single binary, configuration is done at compile-time by a single config.h file. dwm reads from standard input to print arbitrary status text such as the date and/or system load.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 6.8, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

x11-wm/dwm

6.5

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

x11-wm/dwm

6.8_2 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-23

OpenBSD

x11/dwm by name

6.8 newest

no data

Joerg Jung <[email protected]>

HardenedBSD

x11-wm/dwm

6.8_1 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

x11-wm/dwm

6.8_1 newest

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg install dwm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-wm/dwm && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["x11-wm/dwm"]
  u0["x11/sdwmbar"] --> me
  me --> d0["x11-fonts/fontconfig"]
  me --> d1["x11-fonts/libXft"]
  me --> d2["x11/dmenu"]
  me --> d3["x11/libX11"]
  me --> d4["x11/libXinerama"]
  me --> d5["x11/sterm"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 6

Required by 1

x11/sdwmbar